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| Prefixmag |
 The anticipation surrounding each new Kid 606 release is usually fostered by his versatility. He followed up the frenetic mash-up masterpieces The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams and Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You with a series of EPs and full-lengths that found him casting off for unknown waters, whether it be the simple pop of Resilience or the weirdo bass anthems of Pretty Girls Make Raves.But while Shout at the Döner's content is different enough from his previous output to keep his reputation for unpredictability untarnished, one glance at its cover art pretty much gives it away: red on black, a demon with pentagram eyes, and yes, that's an umlaut over a zero. Justice's appropriation of heavy-metal iconography always seems only slightly ironic -- those guys seem to take themselves pretty seriously behind their glowing cross and leather jackets. But here, the Kid is gleefully, unabashedly stealing the most ridiculous aspects of '80s horror-show hair metal and combining them with his amped-up take on rave and club music....full text |
| Cokemachineglow |
| A new Kid606 record is perhaps most exciting because it’s hard to ever accurately anticipate what it’s going to sound like. Eschewing the linear progressions of his genre-hopping contemporaries (those who go through different phases), Miguel De Pedro has instead delivered an oeuvre that plays like a stream-of-consciousness narrative of his growth, and of his many, many tangents, as a musician. After hearing his de facto “comeback” release, the album-length EP Die Soundboy Die, I was expecting that, goofy title aside, Shout At The Döner might amount to something in a slower, dubstep vein. Not so; it appears that De Pedro’s down time wasn’t as dark and paranoid as it seemed on Soundboy—instead, Döner finds Kid606 in familiar thematic territory, gleefully pissing on (and taking the piss out of) hyperactive dance music. Lead single “Mr. Wobble’s Nightmare” is jaded raver’s exhibit A, twisting the scenario of 4 Hero’s breaks and bleeps classic “Mr. Kirk’s Nightmare,” in which a father is informed of his son’s death by overdose, to a pitched-down recording of Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart finding out that his son has been eaten alive by trapped ravers. Where there was, at the very least, a glimmer of sincerity in the intended shock of the 4 Hero track, De Pedro is in B-horror director mode. Like a George Romero joint in which a subtle social commentary/farce about the monotony of an American shopping mall makes its point in blood, De Pedro subversively observes that ravers are kind of like zombies in their blind revelry. Plus, that bass just murders....full text |
| Tinymixtapes |
| "If you listen to this album in its entirety it will make you cooler than those who don’t." —Kid606, from the liner notes Where Mr. Oizo abandoned raunchy basslines and choice beats to become an ’80s pastiche caricature of his former self, Miguel Depedro (also known as Kid606, Kid666, Kid60mothafuckin6, and Tigerboy) has managed to retain his early-’90s hip-hop influences without coming off like a reactionary hipster humper. Shout at the Döner is a return to the bent pop-techno sound he helped to pioneer. Yep, this plucky Venezuelan laptop guru has been slicing and dicing old school hits since before Gregg "Girl Talk" Gillis bought his first Technotronic record. It has been a tragic oversight by the hype machine that someone as unoriginal and annoying as Girl Talk has become a scene unto himself, while Kid606 sputters along paycheck to paycheck. Sure, Miguel’s dedicated following eyeballs each remarkable release as a lion spots the zebra, satiating its immediate needs, but it never ventures outside of its ecosystem expect in a cage. The beast is angry!...full text |
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